Sentence examples for devote means from inspiring English sources

The word "devote" means to set apart or consecrate – so consider that your child's quiet, personal time with God should be a sacred time, done in "secret".

While most men of means devote lives to accumulating and protecting wealth, Rich wants to be known for sharing fortune with friends, loyal employees and robot maid Irona.

During the illness a household devoted a mean (SD) of 11.4 (0.9) days taking care of the sick child, which resulted in a mean (SD) of 8.3 (0.73) days of lost work among household members.

Surveyed physicians devoted a mean (standard deviation [SD]) of 87%11%1%) of their working day to clinical practice, and saw a mean (SD) of 35 (33) patients with UC in a typical month.

Still, Salinger has the right to tell her own story as she sees it (although some might wonder if the pages and pages she devotes to mean boarding school mistresses and past boyfriends would be published if she weren't also revealing her father's secrets).

It's a film about what it means to devote yourself to something other than your fears and desires, to shed that hard, durable shell called selfishness.

An unflinching look at what it means to devote your entire being to the pursuit of excellence.

That means you devote more time to it, build some type of structure which can be self-sustaining for a long time.

If you want an unflinching look at what it means to devote yourself to your faith, check out John Michael McDonagh's Calvary.

This then becomes an incentive for police departments to desire the high drug trafficking label, which means they'll devote even more resources to drug policing, which means more raids.

Being devoted parents meant devoting themselves to something other than parenting.